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Amazing lecture, thank you!!

Love the tree- Have followed it for years. The breed back program is just not going to do it. Blight resistance is not a dominate gene passed to off spring. In the wild research showed only 30% of the wild trees getting the gene.

Makes me wonder about my little 2.7 acres in Gordon County. I've got lots of natural woods. Well, a couple acres. Sorta mow the rest. Would I qualify? Had a buddy down in Henry County had 14 acres conserved. For taxes only.

Just drove around the property, there's several clutches of rivercane, and there's an area which seems like it went to flower, died, and there ARE batches coming up in the area and nearby. Well, looks like I have a lifelong job, as long as that cane is there. ✌️ Thank you for the inspiration, went and downloaded this slideshow, as well. Farmers were trying to get the cane removed, but now I know it is vital, they won't have farmland to farm if it is removed. Edit: idk why autocorrect changes sentence structure and meaning. Thank you for this wonderful presentation, and the PDF I downloaded online with all this info! Gonna show it to my neighbors, already have a knife for splitting, want to spread it, use it, manage it. Already growing gourds of all types, and I think they will grow together wonserfully! Cheers!!

No way. Exactly what I was looking for!! 😮😮😮 Thank you! 🎍

Sadly resent findings have discovered that the Darling 58 chestnut tree is too problematical and TACF has abandoned it.

hell yeah!

To some of the commenters the world is still flat and humans will not survive a trip to the moon, both of which we know is ridiculus😢

It is called stratification. You have to do the same thing with peach seeds before they will grow.

They did the same thing to the Meyer lemon to make it blight tolerant.

This is fascinating.

Great talk! Very helpful to have a sneak peak into the creative process of landscape design and not doubt myself too much but rely on the process.

Weren't there lab errors that caused a lot of trees to be grown that were not the correct gene type?

Thank you soooo Much for your thorough insight on the American chestnut. I recently ( in the fall of 2023) purchased 50 American Chestnut seeds and plan on getting them started in the next month ( it January 29, 2024). I have a small farm , approximately 48 acres in middle/ eastern Tennessee, and would be glad to share my pictures and anything you would like for the growth of the American Chestnut. I come from a long line of loggers and outdoorsman, past down from my dad and grandfather. They taught me that the land gives as we give. Thanks you for the knowledge.

Should try planting some out here in the cold west. Black walnuts and horse chestnuts do fine, maybe American Chestnuts would too. (In fact horse chestnuts are like weeds here.) On that note, in my yard here in eastern Montana I have two American Elms that survived the Dutch plague and came back from the stumps. One is super healthy, the other gets the summer crud but survives it.

opposing view..........the flippant attitude about the pollen getting out into the world............onece the pollen is in the enviornment there is no calling it back, OWELL MY BAD there is no recalling.....................this is the complaint of anti-gmo people. the scientists dont know every detail about every detail but the overeducated morons continue to put this crap into the enviornment. They dont even know what all the genes in the dna are. They call it Junk genes vs we dont know yet what it is.

Strange that the FDA are ok with Phizer and Woohan Labs , But are scared of a tree 🤔... Not enough 🤑 perhaps ?!?!?

A shame what happened with the Darling 58.

The loss of the AC has been a great American cultural tragedy, so this brilliant research heartens me. As a child in upstate NY in the early 60s, I had the joy of picking and eating chestnuts from a couple of hardy regenerated treelets on an old country lane lined by stone walls dating back to the time when chestnuts grew everywhere. I may not live to see their return to our eastern forests, and I know I will never see any redwood-sized giants. But I am confident that we can achieve that some day with science as our toolbox.

YAY!!!! Thank You. Such Good news!!!

fyi - darling 58 program cancelled due to inconsistent performance of growth in trees....

French beer is not great but the best one - in my mind - is from Corsica and is made of chestnuts!

Similar problem in the UK with Dutch elm disease. I think only one small area where they have survived. We are now seeing issues with our oaks and other forest trees. It is very obvious when you drive around. Ash dieback and an insect decimating our conker trees and there is no cure 🙁

There is a grove of survivors in rouserville pa. Last seen 2018 seemed to be thriving .

Good for game wildlife management areas need replant

Tenn needs replant these trees clear cuts

Clear cutting every where replant

Like to see state forestry’s replant all states

Great presentation. Thank you. Very informative. I'm planting some from seed on the Saluda River near Piedmont, SC. Will keep you posted. Got the seeds from some remnants in California.

oxolyic acid is used to bleach wood.

How come no one has been able to develop a fungicide that works? It makes no sense.

I have been waiting my whole life to start plant ing disease resistant Chestnuts

I heard Rockefeller and mining companies did the bring of these Japanese chestnut trees kill the American drive the people to work . with the trees people didn't need the work

Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the Bradford Pear tree which is engineered to be a flowering pear tree has become an invasive species all over the place -

Interesting talk, I grew up an about 1/2 to a mile from Rosa St & Reddy Ave in Hyde Park section of Boston, Ma. I remember there being this huge Chestnut tree on I think Rosa St. If you look across the River St the open lot of grass used to be a playground for kids like myself hence we were done there often back in the 60’s. We would hollow them out after we removed them from the they’re green spikey cover. Hope they return thanks for jogging my memory.

What I feel needed in American chestnut genetics is Tesla AI to make these trees really American without Asian genes that kill this fungus post haste with no human immune response built for America, by America for American Chestnut. If it crowds out American oak with it's pollen well good since I am allergic to American Oak pollen and hopefully not American Chestnut. No way my family can test the air from 1835 pollen but it may not effect us.

The speaker needs to organize his presentation. Perhaps getting some help from a class on speaking? This presentation lacks logical coherent development, and the speaker is constantly interrupting himself.

Adding a major hardwood species to US evergreen forests and the epidemic diseases that come with mono-forests may help their resistance to evergreen blights.

I used to live in ky. Had a American chestnut tree in my front yard. Unfortunately it had the blight that kills chestnut trees.

Please forward to Scott Merkle, When II was in the Boy Scouts -late 1950's - early 1960's - There was a very large American Chestnut tree on Marshal island - just north of Treasure Island on the Delaware river in Bucks county. My Father said the only reason it had survived was because it was isolated from other trees and from the blight. Many offers were made to cut down the tree for furniture and were refused so the tree may still be there surviving. Perhaps you could find it and take pictures. I believe the diameter was about 48".

There was a large chestnut tree around the block from where I grew up in DuPage County, Illinois.

Costco sells shelled chestnuts

VERY INFORMATIVE, THANK YOU! ❤ I have been keeping an eye on the American Chestnut projects and hope to become involved in growing them someday.

I've noticed ash trees if cut down in the first year of infection flush to the ground will send up fresh sprouts that in our case lived about 6 years and just now are showing reinfection at a height of 15' likewise I had cut down a cancred honey locust 3 times and finally grew back without the cancre appearing

Nothing darling about 58 not a good idea no way we can know all the ramifications of a genetic tree

Considering the genetically engineered Chestnut and it's fruit. I wonder what the nutritional value is of a half a cup of nuts. I would not be concerned about genetically engineered as long as the trees were healthy. We all eat apples and fruits that are sprayed every single year with pesticides.

May be the EPA held waiting for tbe "correct bribe" to make their decision.

Dumb trees didn't evolve quickly enough. Rename it the dumbnut tree.

We have furniture made with American Chestnut.

I have a cousin who still owns land passed down through generations that his family got when they won the Georgia land lottery in the 1700s.